Motivational Quotes

Law and lawyers

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Law and lawyers

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Rulers were made to be broken.

Isenberg, Michael

Law, without force, is impotent.

Pascal, Blaise

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.

Froude, James A.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Lincoln, Abraham

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

Halifax, Edward F.

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No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The law is reason, free from passion.

Aristotle

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I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Young, Brigham

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Swift, Jonathan

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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Johnson, Samuel

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Moore, Thomas

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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.

Proverb

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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Bacon, Francis

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Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Maxwell, James Clerk

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Mill, John Stuart

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The trouble with law is lawyers.

Darrow, Clarence

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Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Jones, Franklin P.

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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Eliot, George

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Welles, Orson

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.

Saying

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Law school taught me one thing; how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

Pomerantz, Hart

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Puzo, Mario

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Owen, Robert

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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Chandler, Raymond

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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Nizer, Louis

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Mcilvanney, William

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.

Louis XIV

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Curse on all laws, but those that love has made.

Pope, Alexander

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Where the law is uncertain there is no law.

Proverb

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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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A good lawyer is a bad neighbor.

Proverb, French

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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better. Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Havel, Vaclav

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.

Macklin, Charles

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

Goldman, Emma